In the Land of Twilight

1994

Format

Picture book

Author

Astrid Lindgren

Translator

Polly Lawson

Illustrator

Marit Törnqvist

Publisher

Floris Books

I shall never forget the day Mr Lilyvale came to get me for the first time. There was a knock on the window. “My name’s Herr Liljonkvast”, he said, “I’m just tiptoeing about on the window-sills to see if there are any children who might want to come along to Skymningslandet. Perhaps you’d like to?” Of course I would!

Mr Lilyvale ("Herr Liljonkvast") was a friendlier predecessor to Karlsson på taket. Astrid Lindgren’s daughter Karin thought up the name. The story from the Nils Karlsson-Pyssling collection is published here as a picture book with illustrations by Marit Törnqvist.